The Futurist
Adventures in the futurescape.
Friday, 9 March 2018
Strange Weather For The Time Of Year
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In February, it was colder in Italy than in Iceland. We have just experienced some unseasonably cold weather. In broad terms, we have j...
Saturday, 10 February 2018
Financial Crashes Past And Present - 2018
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This book rather continues the theme of past and present financial crises. If anything, it belongs in the category of 'financial cris...
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Financial Crashes Past And Present - 1914
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This is the second of two books about financial crises that I have been studying. The first - Bagehot's 'Lombard Street' - de...
Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Financial Crashes Past And Present - 1866
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This is the first of two books I am reading about financial crises. Originally written in 1873, this volume alludes to the Overends finan...
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
The Chickens Come Home To Roost
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One of the features of modern commercial life is the way in which the boundaries between the private sector and the public sector have beco...
Wednesday, 10 January 2018
The Future And The Multiverse
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One of the more outlandish theories of modern science is that of the multiverse. This is the idea that we only inhabit one of an infinite...
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
The End Of The Asian Century
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The rise of Asia is almost a cliché in current futures work. But what happens if this assumption is wrong? The development of Asia has be...
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